IT Quality Group Manager

Citigroup Inc.; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 4,200,000 - 7,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. is seeking a Senior Leader in Technology Quality to drive strategic quality engineering initiatives across global teams and complex financial platforms.

The role emphasizes modernizing testing, cross-franchise coordination, and risk-aware automation leadership. The candidate will partner with PMs, BAs, and business stakeholders to align acceptance criteria early, implement robust UAT gates, and ensure rigorous control governance while overseeing budget and talent development in a

Qualifications

• 15+ years in Software Quality Engineering, Software Engineering, or Testing with 10+ years in senior leadership over globally distributed teams.
• Banking/Capital Markets/Financial Services domain knowledge and exposure to core banking workflows.
• Proven track record leading multi-regional E2E/UAT testing organizations and matrixed stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Modernize the operating model and automate quality ecosystem across testing domains.
• Define enterprise testing strategies, design standards, and automation frameworks for complex architectures.
• Model Total Cost of Quality (CoQ) and ROI metrics for automation and defect prevention initiatives.
• Lead cross-franchise test planning, environment orchestration, data readiness, and release governance.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and stakeholders on UAT gates and acceptance criteria.
• Drive observability, RCA, and defect prevention; integrate functional tests with performance and security validations.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Talent development

Vendor management

Quality engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/SE/IT

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Appium

RestAssured

Postman

Jira

Zephyr

Confluence

AWS

Azure

Kafka

Splunk

Dynatrace

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Responsibilities

1. Strategic Quality Engineering & Transformation

• Operating Model Modernization: Spearhead the transformation of E2E and UAT functions from reactive, manual testing into an automated, shift-left, and continuous quality ecosystem powered by modern test harnesses and AI-augmented testing capabilities.
• Testing Architecture & Standards: Define enterprise testing strategies, test design standards, and automation frameworks across complex multi-tier distributed architectures, microservices, and legacy core banking platforms.
• ROI & Value Realization: Model and track the Total Cost of Quality (CoQ), establishing quantifiable Return on Investment (ROI) metrics for test automation, cycle-time reduction, and defect prevention initiatives.

2. E2E & UAT Execution & Release Governance

• Cross-Franchise Testing Leadership: Oversee comprehensive test planning, environment orchestration, data readiness, and test execution for large-scale, cross-franchise programs, regulatory initiatives, and client-facing digital releases.
• Shift-Left Collaboration: Partner closely with Technology Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Business Stakeholders to align functional acceptance criteria early in the lifecycle and establish robust UAT sign-off gates.
• Non-Functional & Integration Alignment: Integrate functional E2E tests with performance, resilience, security, and synthetic monitoring validations prior to production deployment.

3. Technical Mastery & Automation Enablement

• Framework & Tooling Leadership: Engage credibly at the architectural and code level on test frameworks (UI, API, Data, Mobile), CI/CD integration, service virtualization, and Test Data Management (TDM) tools.
• Risk-Based Automation Prioritization: Apply risk-based, data-driven prioritization models to identify high-value test automation candidates across complex integration flows.
• Defect Prevention & Observability: Drive systemic root-cause analysis (RCA) and leverage structured logs, telemetry, and observability dashboards to catch defects early and prevent recurrence.

4. Organization, People Leadership & Budget Management

• Talent Acquisition & Development: Recruit, build, inspire, and retain high-performing, diverse global quality engineering teams across multiple delivery hubs.
• Full Managerial Accountability: Lead performance management, compensation planning, talent reviews, coaching, career progression, and succession planning.
• Capacity & Budget Oversight: Manage team capacity, resource allocation across projects, vendor partner engagements, infrastructure budgets, and budget-to-actuals change control.

5. Metrics, Reporting & Executive Stakeholder Engagement

• Quality Telemetry: Own and deliver executive-level quality dashboards and KPIs (e.g., automation coverage %, in-sprint automation index, defect containment ratio, mean time to detect/resolve, and release cycle duration).
• Executive Communication: Translate complex quality and release risks into actionable business insights for senior technology executives, franchise business leaders, and governance boards.

6. Risk, Compliance & Control Governance

• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify and mitigate operational, architectural, and delivery risks, demonstrating unwavering commitment to protecting the firm’s reputation, client data, and assets.
• Regulatory & Audit Readiness: Ensure all testing artifacts, approvals, sign-offs, and audit trails strictly comply with internal technology standards, information security policies, and regulatory mandates.

Qualifications

Experience & Domain Expertise

• Overall Experience: 15+ years of progressive experience in Software Quality Engineering, Software Engineering, or Testing, with at least 10+ years in senior leadership/people management roles over globally distributed teams.
• Industry Background: Deep domain knowledge in Banking, Capital Markets, Wealth Management and other Financial Services, with proven exposure to core banking workflows, payment systems, trading platforms and regulatory reporting.
• Global Delivery Scope: Proven track record leading multi-regional E2E/UAT testing organizations and managing matrixed stakeholder relationships across time zones and business lines.

Leadership & Management Capabilities

• Change Leadership: Demonstrated track record as a transformation catalyst who has successfully modernized legacy testing teams, overcame organizational inertia, and built consensus for engineering investments.
• Talent Stewardship: Proven experience in building high-performing engineering cultures, upskilling functional testers to SDETs/QE engineers, and establishing clear accountability structures.
• Financial & Vendor Acumen: Extensive experience with resource modeling, Capex/Opex budget management, and managing strategic vendor/system integrator relationships.

Technical & Tooling Proficiency

• Automation Frameworks: Strong technical depth in modern test automation frameworks and tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, RestAssured, Postman.
• CI/CD & DevOps Integration: Hands‑on experience integrating automated testing gates into enterprise CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, DevOps, AWS CodePipeline).
• Test Management & Agile Tooling: Advanced expertise in Jira, Zephyr, Confluence.
• Data & Cloud Technologies: Experience with Test Data Management (TDM) tools, synthetic data generation, cloud infrastructure (AWS, or Azure), and modern database platforms (RDBMS, NoSQL, Kafka/event-driven architectures).
• Performance & Observability (Preferred): Familiarity with performance testing platforms (e.g., JMeter, NeoLoad, Performance Center) and observability/logging platforms (e.g., Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus/Grafana).

Education & Certifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Certifications (Desirable): ISTQB Advanced/Expert Level, Certified Agile Leader / Scrum Master, AWS/Azure Cloud Certifications, or DevOps/QE leadership accreditations.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Technology Quality

Time Type:

Full time

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